Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Leontiev
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Search For Meaning

In search of logotherapy

2021 ◽  
pp. 000486742110628
Author(s):  
Gordon Parker
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Viktor Frankl ◽  
Influential Book ◽  
Therapeutic Model

In his authoritative and extraordinarily influential book Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl proposed that any individual’s life task is to find meaning, that meaning cannot be obtained without suffering, and that suffering allows meaning to be identified. He also articulated his therapeutic model—logotherapy, the so-called third Viennese school of psychotherapy. This article contemplates why logotherapy currently has seemingly little salience and suggests that the most likely reasons reflect some components being taken over by other therapies and by tenets of positive psychology articulated in recent decades.

The need for a principle-based positive psychology.

2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology

Search for Meaning

1966 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 432-433
Author(s):  
Michael Merbaum
Keyword(s):  
Search For Meaning

The Search for Meaning

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-266
Author(s):  
Stan A. Kuczaj
Keyword(s):  
Search For Meaning

The Antipodes of Positive Psychology

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Dumont
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology

What Is a Positive Psychology Film?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (38) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan M. Niemiec
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology
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